''The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.''

Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French novelist, critic. "Notes: To Whomever Wishes Truly to Hear Me," sct. 1, Inner Experience (1942).
Comprising the first volume of a trilogy published in France under the title La Somme Athéologique.

''Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that specieas alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.''